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Another meme! This one is about books, from a blog that may turn into a book club, just you wait. You bold what you’ve read, italicize what you’ve started but can’t finish, and strike through what you couldn’t stand. (And I guess italicize and strike through what you started and dropped because you couldn’t stand it?)

1984
The Aeneid
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and ClayAmerican Gods
Anansi Boys
Angela’s Ashes : A Memoir
Angels & Demons
Anna KareninaAtlas ShruggedBeloved
The Blind AssassinBrave New World
The Brothers KaramazovThe Canterbury Tales
Catch-22
The Catcher in the Rye
A Clockwork Orange
Cloud Atlas
Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or SucceedA Confederacy of Dunces
The Confusion
The Corrections
The Count of Monte CristoCrime and Punishment
Cryptonomicon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
David Copperfield
Don QuixoteDraculaDubliners
Dune
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
EmmaFoucault’s PendulumThe Fountainhead
FrankensteinFreakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
The God of Small Things
The Grapes of Wrath
Gravity’s Rainbow
Great Expectations
Gulliver’s TravelsGuns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human SocietiesA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
The Historian : A NovelThe Hobbit
The Hunchback of Notre DameThe Iliad
In Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences
The Inferno
Jane EyreJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Kite Runner
Les Misérables
Life of Pi : A Novel
LolitaLove in the Time of Cholera
Madame Bovary
Mansfield ParkMemoirs of a Geisha
Middlemarch
MiddlesexThe Mists of Avalon
Moby DickMrs. Dalloway
The Name of the Rose
Neverwhere
Northanger AbbeyThe Odyssey
Oliver TwistOn the Road
The Once and Future KingOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Oryx and Crake : A NovelA People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Persuasion
The Picture of Dorian GrayThe Poisonwood Bible : A Novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Pride and Prejudice
The PrinceQuicksilver
Reading Lolita in Tehran : A Memoir in Books
The Satanic Verses
The Scarlet Letter
Sense and SensibilityA Short History of Nearly Everything
The SilmarillionSlaughterhouse-five
The Sound and the Fury
The Tale of Two Cities
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
The Three Musketeers
The Time Traveler’s WifeTo the Lighthouse
Treasure Island
UlyssesThe Unbearable Lightness of Being
Vanity Fair
War and PeaceWatership Down
White TeethWicked : The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Wuthering Heights
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : An Inquiry Into Values

Huh. Weird. There are a lot of books on this list that I’ve read, and not many I didn’t like.